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splitting

[ split-ing ]

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adjective

Usually splittings. a part or fragment that has been split off from something:
Some cavemen made their smaller tools from the splittings of stone.

splitting

/ ˈsplɪtɪŋ /

psychoanal the Freudian defence mechanism in which an object or idea (or, alternatively, the ego) is separated into two or more parts in order to remove its threatening meaning

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First recorded in 1585–95; split + -ing ², -ing ¹

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Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.

Fumbleroooohski…'” (39) “'Look at me, ungh, splitting my own seam, oohh… going deep.

When it came to shooting the famous parting of the Red Sea, Ridley Scott elected to show a tsunami splitting the waters.

Was it a classic case of vote splitting between the four actors or ARE THE EMMYS HOMOPHOBIC???

In the early 2000s, after splitting with his wife of 20 years, Stephenson began devoting more time to his interest in art.

If they see us splitting the breeze down Lost River, they won't look for us to bob up from the opposite quarter to-morrow.

A small miner's pick is useful for cutting out, and splitting portions of slaty rocks; or for obtaining specimens of clays, etc.

The poison of an infectious disease kills by splitting and destroying the nuclei of the body's cells.

If you fasten it with stout tacks, it will be strong enough, and there will be no danger of splitting the wood of the ends.

Rigid care has been taken to exclude such dramatic pieces which are fittingly described as "side-splitting farces."

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